Segregation
Subtitle: a global history of divided cities
By: Carl H. Nightingale
Series: Historical studies of urban America; Historical studies of urban America
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226580746
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Discrimination in housing; Segregation; Urban policy; Housing; History; Minorities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ancestries; title: Seventy centuries of city-splitting; title: Before race mattered; title: The long shadow of the Ziggurat; title: Segregating strangers; title: Scapegoat ghettos; title: Quarters for classes, crafts, clans, castes, and the sexes; title: Ancient and medieval legacies; title: Color and race come to the city; title: White town/black town; title: Governor Pitt's Madras; title: The rise and fall of American (and South African) segregation in colonial times; title: Eastward connections; title: The cross-colonial color connection; title: Color before race; title: Race and the London-Calcutta connection; title: The modern way to split a city; title: How London conquered and divided Calcutta; title: Race and the imperial city; title: The London-Calcutta sanitation connection; title: The West End's White Town connection; title: London's Calcutta problem; title: Surges of segregation in the colonies; title: The stations Raj; title: Paradoxes of detachment and dependence; title: Beyond Calcutta; title: Stations of the empire; title: "Bring your cities and stations within the pale of civilization"; title: Stations for sale?; title: Beyond India; title: Segregating the Pacific; title: Incomings and outgoings; title: Segregating China's gateways; title: Tides in the Pacific; title: Segregating all oceans; title: Segregation mania; title: A call to all continents; title: The germ theory of segregation; title: Segregation sails East with the plague; title: Hunting rats, fleas, and mosquitoes in Africa; title: The high tide of segregation mania; title: The long end of the craze; title: Legacies of the mania; title: The outer limits of colonial urbanism; title: Imperial monuments, imperial tombstones; title: French connections; title: A French Calcutta?; title: Planet Haussmann; title: Splitting cities, beaux-arts style; title: Sunset at New Delhi; title: A bitter epitaph; title: The archsegregationists; title: The multifarious segregation of Johannesburg; title: Archsegregationism and the wider world; title: Squaring race and civilization; title: A keystone of global anglo-saxondom; title: The birth of "separate development"; title: From labor control to "influx control"; title: Grandparents of the group areas; title: The furies fly in the settlers' city; title: Arrogance and its agonies; title: The intimacies of race war; title: They will buy us out of the country; title: Pandora's segregationism; title: The birth pangs of nation-state segregation; title: Camouflaging the color line in Chicago; title: A subtler sort of segregation?; title: Segregating the United States; title: Jim-crowing the neighborhoods; title: Segregation by profiteer, protective association, and pogrom; title: A time for camouflage; title: The "iron ring"?; title: Segregation at the extremes; title: Split cities and the global cataclysm; title: Hitler's "death boxes"; title: A new deal for America's color lines; title: The sinister synthesis of apartheid; title: Fragmented legacies; title: Outflanking a global revolution; title: Age of liberation, age of apocalypse; title: Have ghettos gone global?; title: Postcolonial and neocolonial city-splitting; title: A new century of settler segregation?; title: Epilogue: people, the planet, and segregated cities.